Hip hops eggs are going bad.

Grandmaster Flash spoke of the narrow focus of hip hop and its sourness.
When hop was making its global stamp in the early eighties, a music aficionado was known to state that rap would never last.
This probably appeased the conservatives who were uncomfortable with urbanism rising from under their pulpit with potentially relentless unforgiving exposé’s of serious and illuminate-esque home truths.
Well, as we know, the rest is history. Every Tom, Dick and Prince Harry, corporation and sporting world has sidelined themselves with the gravy train of hip hop.
But hip hop was fundamentally an untenured animal in its composition style, content and image. No matter how commercial it got, its possibilities were still scary. From the Japanese to the German it has never lost its black American independent template, just like the Black Power Movement of the 60's.Mps, presidents and socio-political science were regular focuses for rap lectures with new age punk beats. These were university classes that weren't allowed on the national curricula. Public Enemy was a subject of FBI surveillance. Our own mc D was relegated to a drugged up psychiatric patient as soon as his powerful message of unity hit the air waves.
Up until this time, the blacks had their place. They played reggae, soul, the blues and jazz. So what if they had a few protest messages. After Vietnam it was all elevator music.
Even the great messenger Bob Marley was turned into a pop star.
Is it any wonder hip hop became one dimensional clap trap? The appropriate acts were paid to push the appropriate rubbish. The rest followed suit, blunting the effective offence.
You cannot stop artistic expression, but you can steer the market.
'The eggs haven't gone bad'
'The messages and caliber of hip hop's old guard are etched in our valuable consciousness.
The appropriate perspective should be 'The man' has utilised his resources, engaged in, and is now systematically winning the battle; on his terms............ again